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MAD DOG SUMMER AND OTHER STORIES
CONTENTS
Introduction
This one was commissioned for an anthology titled 999, edited by Al Sarrantonio. I actually think the title may have harmed the sales of the book. It’s confusing. Had to do with the end of the twentieth century.
This one was written specifically for a Mysterious Press anthology. It struck me immediately.
This one was commissioned for a book titled Mothers and Sons, edited by Jill Morgan. I jumped at the chance. My mother and I were close, but we also had our differences. We went through the usual teen/parent conflicts, but we weathered them quite well, and stayed friends through it all. But our relationship was not “friends” as many modern folks like to think it should be between parents and offspring. My mother was a parent in the best sense of the word, as was my father. They were truly people
This is one of my all-time favorite pieces. I wrote it very quickly for an anthology Doug Winter was editing called Millennium, or Revelations. I forget which was the British, which was the American. The idea was, beginning with nineteen hundred, until two thousand, a writer would have a ten-year period in which to write a story about those times. Any kind of story, but something that touched on the era. Some real event that anchored it. All of this was bookended by a piece by Clive Barker. It w
This one is Jill Morgan’s fault. She asked my wife and me to do a story for a book of stories written by husbands and wives. Karen had a couple of ideas, and one of them sparked something. I changed it a bit, told her what I had in mind, she suggested changes, I wrote a draft, she worked it over a bit, and I revised, and this came out.
The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down
Foreword
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Epilogue
Veil’s Visit
“Way Down There” is an exercise in weirdness. It’s not a brain storm, though I would argue, lightly, that it does contain within it a number of philosophical and theological concepts, as if discussed by Groucho Marx in a thoughtful mood while drinking pure alcohol.
Below is a list, not in alphabetical order, of references that were used in reconstructing the events of this true adventure. In some cases, publications have been so many, and are such well known works, that I haven’t bothered to list dates or publishers. This is meant to be nothing more than an informal guide:
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